Anyone's DC on montelukast?

We're pleased with it; DS (3.6) suffers with recurring viral wheezing and so we're told to give it to him whenever he starts a wheezy cough (usually towards the end of a cold) as previously it always became traumatic croup. I'm glad as he was taking prednisolone for the croup all the time which was worrying me. No side effects to report so far - he has had Montelukast a couple of times over the winter.

weblette I notice you said "an hour after food" and just wondered - our packet says one hour before or two hours after food, which we find a right pain sometimes because on nursery days DS doesn't usually finish supper till after six so we either have to hurry him up and make him eat quickly (or take away the food before he is finished) or keep him up later than normal - encouraging meltdown - or give him the pill before 2 hours is up - making us feel guilty for not obeying instructions. If it can actually be given only 1 hour after food then that would save us many nightmares! I wonder if yours is a different brand/dosage to ours to make the instructions different?

Ds has been on it since a baby. When he changed from the granules to the tablets he got really bad nightmares. We were told by great Ormond street that it can be given in the morning. Which has helped ds. It has made a big difference to him. We have a period of not being on it and his asthma and allergies were awfull

I just came on here to ask about montelukast! Dd2 has just been prescribed it for recurring viral wheeze, which I was a little confused about as we haven't even tried the beclamethasone yet (which has worked well for dd1). Very helpful thread, thank you.

I was also wondering about the timing of the meds, as dd2 is normally asleep by about 1hour after tea max. I would be interested to know when everyone else fis it in? The only time that is -1hr and +2 hrs from food is when she wakes up in the morning, but the packet also says take it in the evening .